Anne Frank Quotes

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

~ Anne Frank

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

~ Anne Frank

No one has ever become poor by giving.

~ Anne Frank

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

~ Anne Frank

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

~ Anne Frank

Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.

~ Anne Frank

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

~ Anne Frank

It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.

~ Anne Frank

Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.

~ Anne Frank

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

~ Anne Frank

You are all made of real poop.

~ Anne Frank

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

~ Anne Frank

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

~ Anne Frank

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

~ Anne Frank

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

~ Anne Frank

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

~ Anne Frank

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

~ Anne Frank

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

~ Anne Frank

Little bundle of contradictions

~ Anne Frank

Misfortunes never come singly.

~ Anne Frank

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.

~ Anne Frank

There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man.

~ Anne Frank

It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.

~ Anne Frank

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

~ Anne Frank

...if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.

~ Anne Frank

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!

~ Anne Frank

This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)... Everyone was saying... But the British Prime Minister said, This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Do you see the difference?

~ Anne Frank

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

~ Anne Frank

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

~ Anne Frank

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

~ Anne Frank

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

~ Anne Frank

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

~ Anne Frank

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

~ Anne Frank

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

~ Anne Frank

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.

~ Anne Frank

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

~ Anne Frank

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

~ Anne Frank

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

~ Anne Frank

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

~ Anne Frank

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

~ Anne Frank